The MASSACRE at DAMOUR, 1976

The MASSACRE at DAMOUR, 1976

"".....On 9 January 1976, three days after Epiphany, the priest of Damour Father Mansour Labaky, was carrying out a Maronite custom of blessing the houses with holy water. As he stood in front of a house on the side of the town next to the Muslim village of Harat Na’ami, a bullet whistled past his ear and hit the house.
Then he heard the rattle of machine-guns. He went inside the house, and soon learned that the town was surrounded. Later he found out by whom and how many — the forces of Sa’iqa, consisting of 16,000 Palestinians and Syrians, and units of the Mourabitoun and some fifteen other militias, reinforced by mercenaries from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a contingent of Libyans.....

Father Labaky telephoned the Muslim sheikh of the district and asked him, as a fellow religious leader, what he could do to help the people of the town. ‘I can do nothing,’ he was told ‘They want to harm you. It is the Palestinians. I cannot stop them.'
While the shooting and some shelling went on all day, Father Labaky telephoned a long list of people, politicians of both the Left and the Right, asking for help. They all said with apologies and commiserations that they could do nothing. Then he telephoned Kamal Jumblatt, in whose parliamentary constituency Damour lay. ‘Father,’ Jumblatt said,
‘I can do nothing for you, because it depends on Yasser Arafat.’ He gave Arafat’s phone number to the priest.

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""...In all, 582 people were killed in the storming of Damour. Father Labaky went back with the Red Cross to bury them. Many of the bodies had been dismembered, so they had to count the heads to number the dead. Three of the men they found had had their genitals cut off and stuffed into their mouths.

The horror did not end there, the old Christian cemetery was also destroyed, coffins were dug up, the dead robbed, vaults opened, and bodies and skeletons thrown across the grave yard. Damour was then transformed into a stronghold of Fatah and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). The ruined town became one of the main PLO centres for the promotion of international terrorism. The Church of St Elias was used as a repair garage for PLO vehicles and also as a range for shooting-practice with targets painted on the eastern wall of the nave.

The commander of the combined forces which descended on Damour on 23 January 1976 was Zuhayr Muhsin, chief of al-Sa’iqa, known since then throughout Christian Lebanon as 'the Butcher of Damour'. He was assassinated on 15 July 1979 at Cannes in the South of France..."""

Ex From 'CEDARLANDS' and READ THE REST AT http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...87/damour.html

There are hundreds if not thousands of such events happen to the Christian in Egypt, for example. Starting of opening the fire on the Christians in the churches on Sundays and ending with burning whole Christian villages as in the famous incident in Kosh on January 2000. I just mentioned Egypt because some people love to call it moderate Islamic nation!

There is a very nice site about that: www.copts.com that reveals all these acts.

Originally posted by Ezra
There are hundreds if not thousands of such events happen to the Christian in Egypt, for example. Starting of opening the fire on the Christians in the churches on Sundays and ending with burning whole Christian villages as in the famous incident in Kosh on January 2000. I just mentioned Egypt because some people love to call it moderate Islamic nation!

There is a very nice site about that: www.copts.com that reveals all these acts.

Thanks for the Copts site and I am glad to respond to your post, as it Bring this String to the top on the 27th Anniversary (Jan 9) of Damour

A Bump up on the 28th Anniversary of this event.

Also a little Context for the Oft/Over published 'Sabra and Chatilla'.

Thank you for posting this.

I am from Damour and what happenned there is typical palestinian hatred against Christians and Jews. This is also the actions of the Nobel Peace prize winner Yasser Arafat..This is what will happen to Israelis if they don't defend and protect themselves the way they are doing right now. The world should be aware of this and not only of Sabra and Chateela where the Lebanese traitor Elie Hobeika massacred people in the name of the phalangist to screw Sharon and destroy Israel 's image in Lebanon. (After the massacre Elie Hobeika served his masters in syria until his death ).

You could also check the pictures of the Damour

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...arpixs2_1.html

The terrified father being seperated from his family is a member of my family

Also do not forget that Massacres like in Damour and many other Christian villages of Lebanon happenned before the Israeli occupation, before the checkpoints, before the IDF incursions.

they occured after Palestinian refugees were killed by their arab brothers in Jordania and Syria because Arabs wanted to send refugees where they could never become part of the society ,staying refugees , staying a political card for the arab's fight against a Jewish State. They sent them to a Christian Lebanon were freedom , justice and democracy existed....Palestinians couldnt accept a Christian state just like they cannot accept a Jewish State eventhough Christian Lebanon and Israel was/are strong and advanced economically. ( Western-like life style)


As for Sabra and Chateela ...here is the Book of the body guard of Elie Hobeika who was the closest man to Hobeika... He tells the truth Hobeika calling him a murderer , war criminal, and the responsibable of the Sabra chateela "massacre"

http://www.aceviper.net/members/cobra/intro.html

Chapter 6 and 7 are very interesting.

From Damour!

Let me join with Brodsky in offering solidarity with you and the tragedy that befell Lebanon.

I am familiar with the 1970-1982-Now History of Lebanon and have posted much about it on many boards.
On Yahoo's I-P Conflict board, where I used to post, I was indeed 'accused' of being a Lebanese Christian for my many posts on the subject and on Christian Persecution in the Middle East overall. (As I have here as well)
I think several here even mistook me as well for that same reason but I am an American Jew.

There's much to be found from the Many Expatriot sites like:

http://www.clao.com/

http://www.clhrf.com/

http://www.10452lccc.com/

and many others.
I just lost many in a computer changeover but they are easy to find again.
WorldNetDaily also focuses on Lebanon and the plight of Christians in the M.E.

Lebanon and Beirut, ('The Paris of the Middle East') is no more- the balance in that country forever altered by that Civil War, The Palestinians, Syrians, etc have cleansed more than 1 Million Christians.

I wonder how many Americans and israels know about this?

[Achihud]

Originally Posted by Marjeyoun

I wonder how many Americans and israels know about this?

Yes, I know what you mean Marjeyoun.
Here in Belgium we had a hatemonger for a while called Abou Jahjah with his Arabic European League (AEL). He or his first man (I can't recall right now) preached the destruction of the state Israel as a solution to the Palestinian problem. And how much attention he was given on TV and newspaper!!! At a 09/11 event he was given a moment of time in the prime time news, to explain he was holding a memorial service to! Guess what, for Sabra and Chatilla because all that sympathy for the victims of 09/11 was western hypocrisy anyway!!! Do you think any reporter brought up Damour 1976 and the possible consequences for that? Not a go-damn thing! Instead I have to come to IF to learn about it.

he forces of Sa’iqa, consisting of 16,000 Palestinians and Syrians, and units of the Mourabitoun and some fifteen other militias, reinforced by mercenaries from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a contingent of Libyans.....

Just the sort of people you would love to have waiting for you outside your house/town

Originally Posted by Marjeyoun

I wonder how many Americans and israels know about this?

How many Americans and Israelis know about Haj Al-min Al Hussieni and the Palestinian connection to the Nazi Holocaust? Let alone this

[Achihud]

Given Sharon's health situation I thought it would be a good idea to bring this back on top.

I wish Ariel the best and I hope he will recover as best as it can get.

[Reffo]

So where was the huge outcry about those war crimes committed by palestinian arabs and their allies? Why didn't the so called "Progressive" Types push for the inditement of Yasser Arafat, Assad and others?

They reserve their venom, hate, ire and outrage against Israelis whom they like to demonize! That's why they have no credibility at all, because of their selective "morality".

[andak01]

I follow the news enough to know that Araffat is dead. For my part, I think that a long and successful life for Israel is best for Arabs and Israelis alike. However, sword wagging, a national policy of assassination and a wall are not, in my opinion, the way to that future. Free and democratic people must be willing to die for their ideals. Turning into a police state in the name of fighting terrorism is deadly to the economy and to the free markets that created the economy. On top of that, there is the burden of recreating a free society and rebuilding diplomatic relations with nations that you will always be dealing with.

[tzanchan]

Originally Posted by FreeLebanese

Thank you for posting this.

I am from Damour and what happenned there is typical palestinian hatred against Christians and Jews. This is also the actions of the Nobel Peace prize winner Yasser Arafat..This is what will happen to Israelis if they don't defend and protect themselves the way they are doing right now. The world should be aware of this and not only of Sabra and Chateela where the Lebanese traitor Elie Hobeika massacred people in the name of the phalangist to screw Sharon and destroy Israel 's image in Lebanon. (After the massacre Elie Hobeika served his masters in syria until his death ).

You could also check the pictures of the Damour

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...arpixs2_1.html



The terrified father being seperated from his family is a member of my family

Just curious,at what age did you leave lebanon, and what is your ethnicity if I may so ask?